Friday, February 23, 2018

The Nuclear Winter Olympics, Day 15: Another Russian Busted

  • I reiterate what I said earlier.
If the Russian flag flies on Sunday -- Hell, if the remaining Olympic Athletes from Russia are even allowed to participate in the Closing Ceremony at all at this rate!!! -- it's because of the fact that the IOC, recognizing that any consistency forces the disqualification of the United States Olympic Committee from the Olympic movement, must allow the Russian flag to fly.

Another Russian has been caught doping, and this one might be worse than the other - as it appears, at least according to Deadspin, that it was an athlete who felt the need to wear a shirt saying "I Don't Do Doping".

Trimetazidine, a banned heart medication.  Nadezhda Sergeeva, pilot of the women's two-woman bobsled -- finished 12th.

I believe this is the third or fourth positive drug coming out of these Games so far, two of them OAR.

If Russia is to continue to be part of the Olympic movement at all, it's because of the United States Olympic Committee of Sexual Assault.  Period.
  • This, on the night the OAR finally wins it's first gold medal of these Games, women's figure skating.
  • And the hits keep coming for Russia.  An OAR hockey player, cleared of doping earlier in the Sochi Games, has been thrown out of the Olympic ice hockey tournament.  Anna Shokhina was banned for two international games for kicking in the bronze-medal match.
  • Medal Count:  The gold medal count is still tied between Germany and Norway at 13.  However, Norway has tied the United States' 2010 Olympic record with a total of 37 medals.  (Canada set the record for golds at the same Olympics, believed tied with Norway eight years earlier, at 14.)  Canada has 10 golds and 27 overall for solid third.  USA is now fourth with 8 golds and 21 overall.

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